"As you see in a pair of bellows, there is a forced breath without life, so in those that are puffed up with the wind of ostentation, there may be charitable words without works."

“We need to be grateful for many things that didn't happen.”

“It was more just about serving the song, which is sort of the way that we work in general. We wanna do the best that we can with it and make it the most interesting to our ears. And putting auto-tune on 'California English', was just one reflection of that.”

“On average, global warming is not going to harm the developing world.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

“My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do backflips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, we put things to the side, and I was able to - I'm able to see her. She's able to see me. We love each other.”

“When I heard Nirvana, it changed my life.”

“I don't relax. My main relaxation is meeting illustrators and publishers in restaurants and bars.”

“I spent an entire evening seated between Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, being charmed from either side. It was pure Hollywood magic.”

Source : Lorna Luft (2015). “Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir”, p.268, Simon and Schuster

“Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.”

Source : Jan Gehl (2013). “Cities for People”, p.6, Island Press